THE parents of Hannah Maxwell-Jones are hoping the disruption to transatlantic flights does not delay her long-awaited operation.
Two-year-old Hannah, accompanied by her parents, Allison and Keith Maxwell-Jones, is due to fly to the city of Little Rock, Arkansas, in ten days.
The girl from Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough, who was born with a badly deformed face, is booked in to have pioneering surgery at a world-renowned plastic surgery unit.
Readers of The Northern Echo rallied round to help raise more than £55,000 to cover the costs of what is likely to be a series of operations in the United States.
But the dramatic events in New York and Washington have placed a question mark over the family's travel arrangements.
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